Rainbow Turkey

This colorful turkey is great to hang at your front door. Your kids will have a grand time making it.

What You Need:

Make a turkey for your door.

Paper plate without plastic coating, or brown cardboard
Scissors
White glue
Hole punch
Pencil
Brown poster paint
Paint brush
Yarn or string
Red, blue, green, yellow, orange and brown construction paper
Black marker

Instructions:

1. Take your paper plate and cut the center out of it so that the rim forms a wreath. Paint the paper plate brown or cover with brown or black cardboard.

2. Cut a head for the turkey from the brown paper and glue it to the bottom of the wreath. Cut eyes and beak from yellow papper and glue them on the head. Take a black marker and make black circles on the eyes.

3. Cut a wattle from red paper and glue under the beak.

4. Cut the legs from orange paper and glue them so they hang below the head of the turkey.

5. The feathers for the turkey are made from 3 1/2 inch strips of different colors of construction paper. Plan on making at least 50 of these depending on how full you want your turkey.

6. Wrap each strip around a pencil and very carefully slide the pencil out of the rolled paper to retain the curl.

7. Fill the entire wreath with paper curls making sure you spread the colors evenly.